We continue our series of month-by-month reviews of the major regional news of 2024 as reported in Coast Community News.
May
A Walk for Women was held in Gosford calling for government action on violence against women.
Residents determined to see the library building retained in Gosford held a snap action to protest its proposed demolition.
The Community Environment Network said the master plan for Central Coast Airport at Warnervale did not provide enough accurate information and a clean-up began on the site of the demolished Empire Bay boatshed.
A new petition was launched calling for an end to shark nets off the Central Coast and a plan to allow up to 2,200 homes in a new subdivision between the M1 and Westfield Tuggerah opened for public comment.
The Niagara Park Stadium upgrade got underway and the Mariners women’s team bowed out of the finals run in the liberty A-League competition.
The Environment Protection Authority declared the former Munmorah power station site as significantly contaminated and said a cleanup would soon start, with residents saying the move was long overdue.
Work began on the revamp of Pelican Park at Woy Woy and more severe storms pummeled the region.
The multi-storey Vue Mer Residences development in Gosford stalled with the NSW Building Commission declaring it unsafe.
The Central Coast Mariners men’s team were crowned A-League premiers after a 12 year drought.
The federal budget promised an energy rebate for every household and tax cuts for all and calls ramped up to save Gosford library.
Plans for a $90M development to build Wyong‘s first high-rise hotel tower was heard for the second time in the Land and Environment Court.
Vision impaired bowlers and other community groups gave an impassioned plea to save Gosford Bowling Club.
Future Sooner announced it would hold a citizens inquiry into health problems associated with ash dams at power station such as Vales Point and Eraring and plans were announced for an $11.6M food manufacturing training hub at Ourimbah.
The Central Coast Mariners men’s team made sporting history after taking out the grand final and it was announced that the closing of Eraring power station would be delayed by two years until 2027.
Residents learned water rates would rise by 12 per cent from July.
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